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Thwaitesia species?

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Species:
Thwaitesia species?
(Suggested identity based on similarities with known Thwaitesia species)
Family:
Theridiidae
Body length:
female: about 3 mm
male: about 2.5 mm
Habitat:
Probably a small tangled web like that of redback and grey house spiders but in green vegetation
Toxicity:
Probably far too small to cause a human envenomation
Thwaitesia species?
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Underneath male

This male may actually be an example of the male of the two known Queensland Thwaitesia species: T. argentiopunctata and T. nigronodosa.

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Thwaitesia argentiopunctata and Thwaitesia nigronodosa.


Email Ron Atkinson for more information.    Last updated 4 July 2010.